Friday, December 30, 2022
Tuesday, December 27, 2022
DOUG KNOTT R.I.P.
Doug was an LA poet friend who was always a delight to be around, even when he was cracking wise, as they used to say. He was part of The Carma Bums traveling poetry gang, and the author and star of his one-man show The Last Of The Knotts (if I'm remembering the title correctly, referring to his never having a child).
That's where I last saw him, when the show came to Manhattan a few years ago. When he spotted me in the audience, he seemed genuinely delighted to see me, as I was to see him. He was a multi-talented, multi-faceted creative force and will be missed.
Friday, December 23, 2022
SEASON'S GREETINGS REDUX
Friday, December 16, 2022
ANOTHER LIST!
Almost a century old and half a century with me I felt inspired to list just some of the people who have gathered around it in my many homes then and since:
Caitlin Lally (now Hotaling)
Miles Lally
Ana Ross-Gongora
Lee Lally
Irene Lally Koch
Jimmy Lally
Cal Johnson
Sissie Johnson
Etheridge Knight
Tim Dlugos
Ray DiPalma
Elizabeth DiPalma
Jane DeLynn
Sylvia Schuster
Marty Brandel
Bruce Andrews
Joe Brainard
Johnn Ashbery
Kenward Elmslie
Edmund White
Terence Winch
Karen Allen
Ted Greenwald
John Godfrey
Jim Brodey
Harris Schiff
Annabel Lee
Rain Worthington
Bill Hellerman
Kiki Smith
Elaine Gill
Steve Levine
Steve Hamilton
Alfred Milanese
Kathy Acker
Jimmy Fouratt
Eileen Myles
Edie Baskin
John McCarthy
J. J. Mitchell
Beate Nielson
John Yau
Charles Bernstein
Paul Violi
Irma Towle
Susan Rothenberg
Udo Breger
Bill Sullivan
Richard Andersen
Simon Pettet
Nathan Whiting
Charles Walsh
Emil Schneeman
Elio Schneeman
Leslie Greene
Cookie Mueller
Max Blagg
Mac Wellman
Robert Slater
Fr. Campion (Tommy) Lally
Susan Wechsler
Elinor Nauen
Maggie Dubris
Susan Seidelman
Penelope Milford
Aileen
Bobby Miller
Beverly D'Angelo
Diane Lawrence
Mary Waranov
Dennis Christopher
Don Johnson
Ralph Bakshi
Rutger Hauer
Rob Cohen
Dale Herd
Lewis MacAdams
Ed Begley Jr.
Brad Davis
Helen Shaver
Melanie Mayron
Michael O'Keefe
Mike Binder
Jamie Rose
Tom Wilson
Joan Baribeault
Blaine Lourde
Jim Keefe
Jimmy "Buddy" Lally
Catherine Audia Lally
Nathan Stein
Albie Selznick
Winston Jones
Bill Mohr
Rhonda Talbot
Kale Brown
Eric Trules
Zalman King
Alec Baldwin
Lycia Naff
Neith Hunter
Kim Williams
Terre Bridgham
Jerome Sala
Elaine Equi
Aram Saroyan
Eve Branstein
Susan Hayden
Bonnie Raitt
Sharon Stone
Jeff Kobar
Walter Koch
Russel Kesterton
Carl Koch
Ty Granderson Jones
Michael DesBarres
Pamela DesBarres
Patti D'Arbanville
Stephen "Rocky" Bauer
Peter Case
Flo Lawrence
Yvonne de la Vega
Ramona Wilson
Nick Brown
Hubert Selby Jr.
Katy Sagal
Lyndall Hobbs
John Bailey
Carol Littleton
David Milch
Rita Stern Milch
Sarah Jessica Parker
Beth Grant
Paul Harryn
Michael Chieffo
Jenifer Baxandale
Crystal
Jaina Flynn
Flynn Lally
Michael Harris
Meg Foster
Bill Lannigan
Katy Lannigan
Marshall Norstein
Elaine Durbach
Billy Lally
Robert Lally
Sis Fennesy Lally
Naomi Greene
Donovan Lally
Ed Hotaling
Deak Hotaling
Hannah Bracken
Janet Kirker
Jeff Coleman
Sue Brennan
Stephanie Hoeler
Jim Coleman
Stefan Wrembel
Jeanne Donohue
Will Robinson
Abi Teixteira
Gwyn Kruger
Nela Hadzic
Odell
Mim Kohn
Nance Boylan
Steve Adams
Spenser Parker
Mick O'Malley
Suzanna Caperos
Lisa Dugan
Amber Daniel
Maria Serrano
Stella Keating
Josee Funes
Marilyn Mohr
Karen Hubbard
Pina Pipina
Susan Napack
Phillipa Scott
Maryann Seibert
Angela Lockhart Aranoff
Mindy Thompson Fullilove
Beth Boily
Laura Booker
Boo Trumble
Rachel Diken
Geoff Young
Perry Ostrin
Brendan O'Connell
[This is who came to mind as I went back over the places i lived in NYC, Santa Monica, Maplewood NJ, and now Hillsdale NY...I know I'm forgetting folks so please forgive my 80-year-old Parkinson's brain...I could have checked my mailing address thing or FB friend list, but I did my best without prompts...feel free to add to it if this table rings a bell for you...]
+ John Restivo, Vivian Bresnitz, Anselm Hollo, Bob Holman, Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, Jeff Wine, John Voight, Chris Coreshi, Raven Chaney, Mike Graham, Mello-Re Houston, Michael Andre, Kenneth Koch, Willie Farrell, Mark Ebner, Patrice Lally Pniewski, Michele Lally Doyle, Jennifer Lally Fondots, Kim Collins, Kevin McCollister, Magdalen Powers, Paul Abruzzo, Dick Lourie, Ron Schriber, Simon Schuchat, Don Yorty, Norman Scriviner, Matt Hauser, Grace Cavalieri, David Hilton, Joanne Hilton Dahlgren, Sandy Bull, Buddy Arnold, John Getz, Ingrid Bolting, Chloe Chandler, Luloo Flynn Mann, Evan Mann, Isabella DesPosito, Doug Milford, Theresa Burns, Jim Bracken, Kathy Bracken, Ate de Jong, Julian Neal, Sophie Charlip.